Crystal structure transformations in SiO2 from classical and ab initio metadynamics

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 623-626

  Martoňák, Roman ^a   Donadio, Davide ^a   Oganov, Artem R ^a   Parrinello, Michele ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME KINETICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SILICON;

ANATASE STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE TRANSFORMATIONS; METADYNAMICS; OCTAHEDRAL STRUCTURE;

SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33746609016     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1696     Document Type: Article

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